The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, an eight meter ground-based telescope that comes online next year and was built to survey huge patches of the sky, says it will have a hard time spotting near earth asteroids because of Starlink and similar.
“the ability to detect asteroids approaching from directions interior to Earth's orbit will be disproportionately impacted because those directions are visible only during twilight when illuminated LEO satellites are most numerous.”
https://www.lsst.org/content/lsst-statement-regarding-increased-deployment-satellite-constellations
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